Rail-joint and anticreeping device.



PATENTED lTUNE 25, 1907.

. P. M. VOLK. RAIL JOINT ANB ANTIGREBPING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 1, 1906.

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EEANOIS M. VOLK, OF MINTURN, CALIFORNIA.` RAIL-.JOINT AND ANTICREEPING Device.A

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

Application filed November 1,1906. Serial No.,341,568.

To all whom it may cori/cern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. VOLK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minuturn, in the county of Madera and State of California, have invented new and useful Imrovements in Rail-Joint and Anticreeping evices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a crnbined rail A represents a rail having its base Hange, y

adjacent to an end of the rail, cut out as shown at 2, correspondin ly with the lugs 3-on the base plate ofthe c air 4. The latter is open at one side as shown to permit of the laying and removal of the rail. The closed side or d fixed angle plate 5 of ythe chair is sha ed to Ht over one side .of the base Hange of t 1e rail and abut againstand'support one side of the web of the rail.

.The open side ofthe chair has a lengthwise extending Hange 6, behind which'the rail will it when the opposite side of-thebase Hange of the rail is properly seated` in under the closed Harige 5. The .inner side of the shallow Hange 6 has a longitudinal groove 7 into which the hook-shaped end 8 of the movable angle plate 9 is adapted to Ht hinge fashion. The Hxed angle. plate 5, the removable angle plate 9 and the web of the rail, are correspondingly erfor'ated as shown at 10, so that with the rai in place, and with the angle plate 9 engaged in its interlocking recesses 7 and turned up against the side of the rail and the parts bolted together through these perforations 10, the removable angle will be drawn toward the fixed angle clamp-fashion to grip the rail and prevent any rattling at the joint.

The base of the chair may be perforated as shown at 11 to allow the same to be securely spiked or bolted to the ties, and the rails may be provided With the spike holes 12 for holding the rail'to the ties for proper spacing.

The cut out portions 210i the rail and the i interlocking lugs 3 oit" the chair, are for the pur ose of preventing any creep of the rails or trac due to expansion and contraction.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is Y 1. The combination of a rail chair having -a base' portion and a Hxed integral angle plate, said base ortion having a flange between which and sai'dHXed angle late the rail is adapted to seat, and a Inova le angle plate having its outer edge turnablylftted to the inner Wall of the Harige of thechair.

2. A rail chair having a base portion provided with upwardly extending lugs ada ted to iit corres OndingA recesses in' the ase flange of a rai to prevent the rail from creeping, and said base portion having a HXedintegral angle plate, and a removable angle late, said base portion of the angle plate liavingalange and said removable portion of said angle'plate having its outer edge hingedly mounted to the inner wall of the Harige of the fixed angle plate.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses. FRANCIS M. VOLK.

Witnesses:

JAS. P. ROBINSON,

EDWARD VOLK. 

